Hi I am facing some problem in selecting a item in a menu bar from "_ShellForm_Toolbars_Dock_Area_Top" object. When I click on the menu bar QTP records it with respect to Co-ordinates. Any idea to solve this problem?

I am using QTP 10.0 and TEstAdvantage 2010 vol 1. I dont know whether TEst Advantage is configured with QTP or not. I have run the Testadvantage version utilty and it updated the SwfConfig.xml file. I dont know what is the exact problem.

Thanks

Sandeep.

Hi I am facing some problem in selecting a item in a menu bar from "_ShellForm_Toolbars_Dock_Area_Top" object. When I click on the menu bar QTP records it with respect to Co-ordinates. Any idea to solve this problem?

Thanks

Sandeep.

Thanks for the suggestions Mike.  Unfortunately whenever I record anything against this particular application, all I get are screen coordinates and .Click.  I will try the help though and post my toughest questions here.

There are two sources albeit somewhat limited, the installed help, and the intelli-sense, both of which should give you a general idea of the commands viable for manual coding. Admittedly for Toolbars there are many options that may seem overwhelming. As of 10.3 we have since consolidate many of the actions in one simpler action, PerformToolAction.

   In most scenarios you should be able to record against the Toolbar, even if you want to replace the actions with manually scripted ones to for repeatability, it is generally recommended to start with recording first to have an idea of what action matches with what Control\Tool outcome desired.

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That solved the issue.  I am trying to pick a specific item from a list that might change in the future, so I needed to add a variable to the end of the code, but it still works.  Is there a central place to look up the specific available commands for items like the SelectToolbarComboTool command?  It was virtually impossible to find the correct syntax for those type of commands.  Thank you for your help!